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This abandoned alignment is on the property of Traders Point Christian Church. The remains of a building foundation stretch across the road. Historic aerials show that this segment has been bypassed since the 1950s, and that a small building was once built here.
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Walsh, left, prepares to make corrections during a survey alignment on an unfinished runway at Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan, June 25, 2010. The runway will be used to accommodate heavier aircraft at Camp Dwyer. Sergeant Walsh is an engineer deployed 809th Expeditionary Red Horse Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Quinton Russ/released)
This abandoned alignment is on the property of Traders Point Christian Church. The remains of a building foundation stretch across the road. Historic aerials show that this segment has been bypassed since the 1950s, and that a small building was once built here.
On June 24, 2022 around 4:20am, a rare planetary alignment occurred in the night sky. I went to our local park to see if I could capture this moment. Here's a short video describing the four-photo panorama I created from that morning.
From left to right, Mercury, Venus, crescent moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn all aligned themselves!
DCIM\100GOPRO Looking south from Woolgoolga. Woolgoolga bypass is now open, though the rest of the upgrade is still under construction.
even though I have a jig I still use 5 pins. to make sure I hit the set up dead on when tacking. its cuz I prefer to tack on the table where i know the alignment is dead on rather than in the jig. someday I'll get a better jig I have more faith in but for now its two in the head tube two on the bb and one on the seat tube
If it's not aligned perfectly, it's not a Serotta. Bryar Sesselman, an 11-year Serotta veteran, checks the alignment of a fork while Steve Burr, who has been with us for six months, looks on.
Me and my wife went to Paris and it was to hot to carry my camera around so I settled on shooting a few images through the window of the tourbus
out of alignment, off-center, crooked, askew, awry, out of line, at an angle, off-balance
this is how i've been feeling lately, in more ways than one. i've been experiencing a lot of dizziness the past few days, i suspect due to being sick w/this head and chest cold. i've also been completely unbalanced in my life lately. i'm determined to get things back in order, though. and 9 is my favorite number, so i've got a good feeling about this year. :)
Rinconada Las Pilitas Bridge, Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo County, CA
www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-california/places/las-pilita...
The first “official” public road coming into Las Pilitas canyon was surveyed in 1886 by then county surveyor E. Carpenter. This dirt road forded the Salinas River at a crossing very close to the spot where the present new million dollar concrete bridge exists today.
This road was officially called the “Rinconada and Pilitas Public Road”. ( However, some of the early maps also called this the San Jose road because the Pozo area was originally called San Jose by its earliest settlers.) The Salinas River crossing proved to be hazardous due to a soft channel bottom and high water during winter. So, in 1898 a group of early resident pioneers petitioned the board of supervisors for a new road with a better crossing location farther upstream where the riverbed was rocky. The last names of the signatures on this petition in 1898 follow:
Craghill, Bean, Watson, Epperly, Gooley, Sumner, Harrington, Sawyer, Cavanagh, Wilson, Leach, Downey, McNeil, Freeborn, Whitlock, Arnold, Nicholson, Crawford, and O’Leary.
When the first 1886 road was built, the surrounding property at the River was owned by Jose Ramon and C.J. Blanco. Mike Wagster of the Rinconada Ranch suggests that the Blanco family may have had some connection to the Santa Margarita Ranch and its early owner, Joaquin Estrada, and may have been employed by the ranch.
The second road (1898) was surveyed by then county surveyor V. H. Woods. This road was proposed as a 60 foot wide dirt road, and the new crossing was an apparent improvement. Then, in 1916 plans were made to bridge the river for year-around access, and a steel bridge was designed and engineered by then county surveyor Austin Frank Parsons, who came to California from Ohio as an educator and engineer in 1876. The office of county surveyor was an elected position of prominence in those days, and was similar in stature to that of county supervisor. The surveyor was also the county engineer, the road commissioner, the public works director, and the overseer of property boundaries, all rolled into one person and his staff.
In 1916, along with the steel bridge, Parsons also surveyed a new (third) road on higher ground and westerly of the previous two roads. This is the present road today (2010).
The property surrounding this road and bridge was then owned by Minnie Goforth. Minnie Goforth was paid the sum of $250.00 by the county for this new road alignment plus the bridge site itself. The steel bridge was built on the same concrete abutments that are there today. The bridge is 16 feet wide with a 150 foot span. It was supplied (and probably erected) by the Gutleben Brothers Builders from San Francisco who were prominent steel bridge builders of the era.
There were a number of similar steel bridges engineered by Parsons in San Luis Obispo County during this period, but only 2 or 3 remain today. From 1916 to 1948 the north end of the steel bridge did not have the present-day extension. In 1948 the county added this 78 foot “Timber Trestle Post Bridge”, apparently to allow more water volume to pass under both structures. Santa Margarita resident Herb Brazzi, who lived from 1932 to 1936 near the bridge, suggests that when the Corps of Engineers built the Salinas Dam in 1941, it was common knowledge that 1941 was an extremely wet year and the Salinas Reservoir filled up very quickly. The dam developed a crack when the dam was full, and he remembers that the engineers were so concerned that they made the people living at the time in the Garden Farms area of Santa Margarita evacuate their residences until it could be determined that the dam was safe. So, perhaps floodwaters were the main reason the bridge extension was built. The cost to build this extension was $12,200.00 which was shared equally by the state and county. The surrounding property at this time was owned by Edith, Bessie, and Bertha Butchers. They received the sum of $50.00 from the county for property acquisition. Mr. Brazzi states that in 1936 when he lived near the bridge that the road and bridge was paved. Charlene Abeloe (the Kusta property) agrees. However, Al Kahler states that he believes the main road was dirt until about 1948 when it was then just oiled. He says it was later chip-sealed once or twice, until in 1984 it was overlayed with a layer of hot asphalt to make the present road we have today in 2010.
In 1963, the bridge was sandblasted, cleaned, and painted at a cost of $5,900 by Archie Peckham of Fresno, Ca. At this time, the road was still called Rinconada-Las Pilitas, and also County Road #48. Today, it is called Las Pilitas County Road #3100. I do not have any record of painting after 1963, but it likely may have been.
In 2006, the present poured concrete bridge was built at a cost of over one million dollars. The funds came from a federal bridge grant established only for really old bridge replacements. When the county received the grant funds, they then wanted to use the money for other bridge replacements that they considered more urgent, but the Las Pilitas had the only bridge that met the grant requirements, and so we got our new bridge.The property surrounding both bridges today is owned by the Hobson Brothers Packing Company and is leased by Mike Wagster & his family who live on Pozo Road. Please respect their property rights by not intruding unless you have their permission.
The sun rises over the curvature of Queen Annes lace while in the distance sun flare takes on the look of distant planets.
These images are from two very similar projects that I've just helped my friends with. They want to be able to hold bike frames on their alignment tables by the head tube. They both purchased used bench centers, and we had to make bull nose centers for them.
The fit up needed to be very close, so we were working to within a few tenths.
The other complication was that one of the centers on each set was spring loaded and utilized a rack and pinion to withdraw it... so we had to mill those rack gears.
Workforce Alignment workshop "Building strong partnerships to support Wisconsin’s workforce need." A conversation hosted by UW Oshkosh, Department of Workforce Development, Fox Valley Tech and WAICU.
Wall alignment. Site s40. Village of Hamdamigga (?sp): Very large site consisting of mud-brick mounds, rock-cut features into the natural limestone, scattered basalt blocks and fragments, and visible foundations of rectangular structures, mostly in limestone rubble, existing on both sides of the modern road. Like other sites of this nature, the modern settlement has shifted away from the ancient remains, which are used in part for the location of the modern cemetery. Two (modern) reservoirs exist here. (El Anderin, Syria).
06/16/2011 The Manhattan Bridge and a passing skateboarder. Fuji Superia X-Tra 400. Canon A-1. Canon FD 50mm 1:1.4.
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Route 66 (Alignment 1926-1968) - US 89 - US 180 - Business Loop 40.
Locomotive BNSF 5147.
Observing a dazzling planetary alignment/conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and Mars! Brrr, it was a bit chilly out this early. Pics taken from around San Jose, CA from my backyard. (Wednesday very early morning, October 21, 2015)
Venus, Jupiter and Mars conjunction synopsis:
Toward the end of October 2015, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars was to converge and form a broad triangle in the eastern pre-dawn sky. Look up between October 24 and October 29, 2015 to see the planetary trio, which would be formed when these three planets would come within 5 degrees of each other! The planets were to "align closest together on the morning of October 26", according to David L. DeBruyn, curator emeritus of the Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. Indeed, planetary trios actually do happen fairly frequently, but a lot of them are too close to the sun to be easily seen. Without further ado, this month's conjunction was easy to spot with the naked eye, considering that Venus and Jupiter are the two brightest planets in the sky. Look to the eastern skies an hour or more before local sunrise to get a glimpse of this out-of-this-world triple conjunction.
Some people think of organizational alignment as "getting people to buy in" with an idea that is already formed. This may be useful sometimes but I don't think it's optimal.
Alignment is the process of synthesizing varied opinions and viewpoints on a subject.
Getting alignment on "why we're doing this is not about getting everyone to see "the right answer" so much as incorporating everyone's viewpoint into a "shared vision" of what that means.
Cultural alignment can mean "same thing" as in, "we are all driving toward the same goals" (true north) or it can mean "same way" as in, "we do things consistently."
A flock of geese does both -- can a modern organization work in the same way without stifling creativity?